Cinema of West Bengal Current Affairs, GK & News
Veteran Bengali actor Chinmoy Roy passes away
Chinmoy Roy (79), the veteran Bengali actor, has passed away in Kolkata on March 18, 2019. Born in Kumilla district in present day Bangladesh in 1940, Roy had started his career in Bengali films in the 60s and became indispensable to the film makers for his portrayal of comic characters retaining the very essence of ..
Topics: Charmurti • Chinmoy Roy • Cinema of India • Cinema of West Bengal • Films • Goopy and Bagha • Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne • Indian culture • Indian films • Rabi Ghosh • Soumitra • Tapen Chatterjee
Supriya Devi, veteran film actress passes away
Supriya Devi, the veteran Bengali film actress and Padmashri awardee, has passed away in Kolkata, West Bengal on January 26, 2018. She was best known for her portrayal of Neeta in Ritwik Ghatak’s ‘Meghe Dhaka Tara’ (The Cloud-Capped Star). During her over five-decade career in the Bengali film industry she delivered hits and classics like ..
Topics: Actors • Bengali language • Bengali people • Chatterjee • Cinema of India • Cinema of West Bengal • Indian films • Meghe Dhaka Tara • Ritwik Ghatak • Supriya Devi • Uttam Kumar
“Pather Panchali” in the list of 50 best films
Bengali film Pather Panchali has been included again in the list of 50 greatest films of all time. The voting was conducted by the British Film Institute’s reputed magazine Sight & Sound. In 1956 the film won the Best Human Documentry Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road) Based ..
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2012
Topics: Aparajito • Bandopadhyay • Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay • Cinema of India • Cinema of West Bengal • Films • Indian films • Pather Panchali • Satyajit Ray • Subir Banerjee • The Apu Trilogy • The World of Apu